Health + Behavior

The institute will pioneer advancements in pediatric medicine in four key research areas: the brain and behavior; nutrition and metabolism; cancer; and inflammation, infection and immunity.

Members of the UCLA delegation are pioneering research related to the new initiative, which will fund projects seeking new ways to treat, cure and prevent brain disorders.

The realization that caring for indigenous people requires more than medical knowledge and skills has brought a physician, anthropologists and others from across UCLA to learn from each other.

Researchers say that medications recommended by national guidelines are not only effective in saving patients' lives but may also provide savings to the health care system.

The UCLA findings are particularly important in park-starved California, where only one out of every four adolescents lives near a park or open space.

The list, compiled every two years, identifies the best trained, most experienced and most skilled specialists, regardless of where they practice.

The abnormal growth appears to be associated with an increased risk of neuroendocrine tumors, say researchers from UCLA and the University of Florida.

The development could help women and their physicians better prepare for the onset of bone loss and increased cardiovascular risk factors.

Researchers found that youth with Type 1 diabetes who had moved from pediatric to adult care were more than twice as likely to have chronically high blood glucose levels.

For UCLA bioengineering professor Wentai Liu, more than two decades of visionary research burst into the headlines last month when the FDA approved what it called “the first bionic eye for the blind.”

Even after genetically modified T cells stop fighting cancer, they seem to give rise to a new batch of tumor-killing T cells.

Closure-device therapy may be a useful strategy for younger patients with a history of strokes potentially caused by a hole in the wall of the heart.

"We can improve care while reducing costs by making sure that everything we do is centered on what the patient wants," says UCLA's Dr. Jonathan Bergman.

Pulmonary fibrosis was slowly destroying Fernando Padilla's lungs. But an experimental transplant technology at UCLA left the 57-year-old grandpa breathing a whole lot easier.

Nurses and midwives can play a critical role in lessening people's risk of cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory disease and diabetes, according to a groundbreaking new report issued by the World Health Organization and co-authored...

Scientisits found that consuming the genetically engineered fruit helped curb inflammation, boost antioxidant activity and reduce plaques that can lead to atherosclerosis.

The new guidelines, co-developed by UCLA's Christopher Giza, are aimed at protecting the more than 1 million athletes who suffer concussions each year in the U.S.

The new approach to ventricular arrhythmias is part of a trend toward using the same cutting-edge medical techniques on different areas of the body, researchers say.

A major pandemic could occur if bird flu were to become highly contagious among humans. UCLA scientists are making sure we get a leg up on the threat.

Despite high hopes for clot-removal devices, doctors discovered that patients treated with them showed no improvement over those who received standard post-stroke care.

The certification, which confirms that the center has met the highest national standards for safety and quality, further enhances UCLA's reputation as an innovator in clinical care.

UCLA is well-positioned to play a significant role in a national effort to map the brain, as the home of the Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center and more.

"Today, our scientists are mapping the human brain to unlock the answers to Alzheimer’s; developing drugs to regenerate damaged organs; devising new material to make batteries 10 times more powerful. ... Now is the time to reach a level of research ...

The gift, from philanthropists Dr. Mick Dragoo and his wife, Mary, is the largest single donation from an individual or couple the dental school has ever received.

UCLA scientists have found that hypocretin, a peptide neurotransmitter, is increased during positive experiences, suggesting it could be useful in potential treatments for depression.